House of the Day: 407 Vanderbilt Avenue
While everyone else has been at the beach, Mr. Minsky was teeing up his latest townhouse listing, a three-story converted carriage house at 407 Vanderbilt Avenue on the Clinton Hill-Fort Greene border. It looks to us like the interior was completely gutted and renovated from scratch. We’re not particularly partial to nouveau traditional stylings (it…
While everyone else has been at the beach, Mr. Minsky was teeing up his latest townhouse listing, a three-story converted carriage house at 407 Vanderbilt Avenue on the Clinton Hill-Fort Greene border. It looks to us like the interior was completely gutted and renovated from scratch. We’re not particularly partial to nouveau traditional stylings (it feels kinda suburban to us) but the quality is probably decent and this is quite a large place (PropertyShark puts the square footage at 6,500). Nonetheless, the asking price of $3,500,000 seems aggressive. After all, it took the Pfizer mansion at 280 Washington Avenue a couple years to sell and it ultimately fetched only about $3,200,000. And that was back when you could get a decent jumbo mortgage.
407 Vanderbilt Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
LOL, LOL, and LOL. Who is this chap Minsky?
Our Mr. Minsky is such a bore.
WRONG!!!!
AY WILL probably turn downtown brooklyn into a 3rd world hell for at least until a) they finish construction, and b) they figure out how to deal with the extensive transit problems and impending sewage backup in the gowanus and consequently downtown. once these issues (which Bloomberg and everyone else who’s green lighting this pot of gold for Ratner are choosing to ignore — out of sight out of mind right?) are solved then brooklyn may shine again. i give it 15-20 years for all of these problems to be resolved. so if your new 3.4 million dollar home is an investment, plan on at least 20 yrs to make up your money.
The effects of the proposed AY project can be seen as either negative or positive depending on what you want for the future.
if you want central brooklyn to remain a back-water, appalachia-on-the-gowanus, sort of place, then it is bad. If you want central brooklyn to break into the 21st century and become a part of the First World, then it is good. If you are not comfortable with capitalism, growth, and aggressive development, you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. May I suggest moving to Havana? Rangoon? Caracas? Buffalo?
What is most depressing is that I think a lot of these old farts are actually pretty young. How sad it must be to be young and so pessimistic about the future in the middle of the most optimistic, bustling, and ever changing city in the world.
The AY stuff was sarcastic- a joke
6:27: hope you are correct, but at the very least, there is an odiousness to the project that invites fear.
My guess about AY is that it’s impact will be fairly limited geographically.
But of course, the Park Slope Paper needs to build readership over something…
What is all this heartache about Atlantic Yards? AY is a group of new buildings that are going to be built on top of empty railyards. It is not a nuclear bomb. Some people on this blog really need to get a grip on reality, or move to the deep woods where they will never be frightened by a bus or a new skyscraper ever again.
Geesh!
What a bunch of snibbling reactionary pessimistic chicken shits.
for 3.5 million I want a main house to go along with the carriage house and at least twenty acres.
Wait -I thought that you thought prices were going down. Not by Atlantic Yards or not as a result of the project?